According to the Canadian Press on Saturday, the Montreal Alouettes named Jason Maas as their new head coach on Saturday. The Alouettes become the second head coach Maas had coached for in the Canadian Football League. He also coached the Edmonton Eskimos from 2016 to 2019, where he posted a record of 39 wins and 33 losses.
Maas has spent six years as an assistant coach in the Canadian Football League. He was the quarterback coach with the Toronto Argonauts from 2012 to 2014, the offensive coordinator of the Ottawa Redblacks in 2015, and the offensive coodinator of the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 2021 to 2022.
One major reasoning why the Alouettes hired Maas was because of his connection to Alouettes General Manager Danny Maciocia. Maas quarterbacked Edmonton in 2005 and 2008 when Maciocia was the Eskimos’s head coach. In the 2005 CFL Playoffs, Maas was the winning quarterback in Edmonton’s 33-26 win over the Calgary Stampeders in the West Semi-Final, and in Edmonton’s 28-23 win over the British Columbia Lions in the West Final.
Maas quarterbacked Edmonton from 2000 to 2005, and again from 2008 to 2010. He was with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2006 and 2007, and the Alouettes in 2007. In 183 CFL games, Maas completed 1256 passes in 2055 attempts for 17, 126 passing yards, and 81 passing touchdowns. He also had 248 rushes for 1135 yards and 14 touchdown rushes.
